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If you've been wondering about all these sweaters that I've been wearing in my
videos, we've had a colder than usual winter. And it's May and I'm cold this
morning, so I decided to pull out all of these hand knit sweaters that I never
get a chance to wear.
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I'm going to be stopping in to the UK for a few days,
Ah, I don't think it's going to happen, Kaye.
America's iconic monarch butterfly is in trouble.
If I'd had a clue about all this rain we were going to get,
This is very sweet.
I love knitting almost as much as I love
gardening but I can't do both, so my knitting has been sidelined for months,
at least, maybe I think I've made one sweater since I started gardening
whereas I would make three or four sweaters a year before that.
So anyway, that's why I thought, hey get some use out of those sweaters, they're just
sitting in drawers not being worn. I hope you enjoyed seeing them and I hope it
inspires you to knit because knitting is so cozy.
If I was in a cold wintery locale I would be knitting all winter and just
giving the stuff away because I'm a knitting machine. I taught myself how to
knit and when I was like 22 or something and, knit and crochet, cross stitch all
that stuff but knitting I especially liked. I mean at the time it was only
those clanky little metal straight needles and and not a great selection of
yarns. At one time, all the wonderful yarns were made in this country we had
all of these textile mills which we don't have anymore and all of these
yarns these wonderful fabulous yarns are imported from other countries. all of my
yarns for the most part are imported from England. This is a Rowan
International pattern and the yarn also is from Rowan. I named one of my cats
Rowan. That's how crazy for knitting I am. Pull out those wonderful sweaters and
wear them. After all, I knitted them all. they just sit in my drawers all year
long, year after year. I abandoned it. I said I wasn't going to knit anymore and
then when my son went to the Waldorf preschool his teacher said to me, "you
need to start knitting again, he needs to see you knitting, it's very cozy." And of
course, that's all it took. I made one scarf and then I made 50 scarves.
I've probably made at least 30 sweaters and some shawls and various things, a
couple of animals, stuffed animals. I love hand knits and that's why I've been
wearing them in case you wanted to know.
Now, interesting, by the time I came back to knitting there had been a revolution in
yarns that were available and fabulous circular needles made out of various
woods and I mean there's just needles that help you to knit faster. I don't
know how that's possible but they do. And Rowan International is actually not
too far, less than an hour, from one of my destinations in the UK, so, fingers
crossed, I can just say I stopped in there. I don't know if I can make that
happen, but I already know that I am going back to the UK and spend like two
months. I mean, the two best months when the
weather's nice, ha, ha. It's the first week in May and
I'm freezing!
(lively guitar music)
That is a Learjet.
(loud jet passes overhead)